Akita Nero

Akita Nero is the assumed little brother of Akita Neru. His creation is shrouded in mystery and is a product of so-called anti-Miku campaign. He has since been spun off into a distinct character.

Design
Nero's likeness varied in the past, and has been one central difference. At one point, Nero was thought to have been female as well. He has short blonde hair and wears brown sleeveless shirt, yellow undershirt, knee-length yellow pants and yellow-and-black striped socks. He has tight dark-brown arm warmers and a dark-brown arm band to his left shoulder. Carries a blue book. He occasionally wears glasses.

He is sometimes depicted as wearing an outfit similar to Neru's, consisting of a gray sleeveless shirt, a yellow tie, and black pants.

Personality
As per fandom, he is depicted to be more open and a little vain, a contrast to the mostly-tsundere depictions common to Akita family members. However, in Japan, Nero's kinship and his age of 13 years old is considered unofficial.

Recognition of Nero in the overseas community is modest to significant.

Biography
Contrary to popular belief, Nero did not originate from Rena-tan (formerly; Hankyou), possibly as she was the creator of Akita Naru. Nero's origins is connected to Neru herself.

In October of 2007, Miku's pictures became unavailable to search in main search engines in Japan, which incident led to the birth of Neru. Most search engines became normal again in a few days, but Yahoo! Japan showed unusual results nearly for a month. On November 21, 2007, the 2ch board discussed in the thread 2 Miku related news, that abnormalities were noted. After the report, the company seemed to debug the search engine according to each of the 2ch user's indications. Soon the users made a spoof character Nero as "Neru's younger brother and a Yahoo! programmer who was debugging the program manually". His concept art was released on the following day.

From there, Nero came to existence. Upon Nero's conceptualization, the Japanese VOCALOID community started restricting creation of derived characters, due to the process being too easy and lazy, with just an illustration needed to announce the existence of the derived character. Most derived characters has since fallen to obscurity.

Appearances

 * Artwork
 * Search Akita Nero on deviantArt Pixiv Piapro


 * Media
 * Search Akita Nero on YouTube NicoVideo

Trivia

 * Kinship between Neru and Nero is rather sketchy. He may be considered Neru's little brother, but he may be also Neru's genderbend. None are officially confirmed.
 * The other Akita is an unofficial "family member" although not created in Japan, is Akita Naru.
 * Many people like to believe his character item is a fork and cheese.

Gallery
Note; this is not a gallery for every fanart out there, just for reference